54 IHH Healthcare Berhad | Annual Report 2018 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT Scope Of Reporting 56 Sustainability Our Patients 58 Our People 62 Our Organisation 67 Our Environment 72 Our Community 76
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY
Our vision is to build a sustainable organisation that delivers value to all our stakeholders. Underpinning our commitment towards this vision is an integrated approach to business, where sustainability is inextricably linked with all we do. This is evidenced in our reporting this year, where we have adopted the Integrated Reporting Framework demonstrating how we create value in the short, medium and long term.
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SCOPE OF REPORTING the four main home markets, which are with regard to our sustainability In order to focus our efforts and Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and India. performance is from 1 January 2018 strengthen our benchmarks for economic, However, for the 2018 report, we have to 31 December 2018. environmental and social sustainability, chosen specific case studies to highlight we are maintaining the scope as that of our sustainability initiatives and their financial year 2017, i.e. our operations in impact. The reporting period captured
MALAYSIA
1. Pantai Hospital Sungai Petani 6. Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur 11. Gleneagles Kuala Lumpur 2. Pantai Hospital Penang 7. Pantai Hospital Cheras 12. Gleneagles Penang 3. Pantai Hospital Ipoh 8. Pantai Hospital Ampang 13. Gleneagles Medini 4. Pantai Hospital Manjung 9. Pantai Hospital Batu Pahat 14. Gleneagles Kota Kinabalu 5. Pantai Hospital Klang 10. Pantai Hospital Ayer Keroh 15. International Medical University
SINGAPORE
1. Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital 3. Mount Elizabeth Hospital 2. Parkway East Hospital 4. Gleneagles Hospital
TURKEY
1. Acibadem Adana 7. Acibadem Bursa 13. Acibadem Kocaeli 2. Acibadem Altunizade 8. Acibadem Eskisehir 14. Acibadem Kozyatagi 3. Acibadem Ankara 9. Acibadem Fulya 15. Acibadem Maslak 4. Acibadem Atakent 10. Acibadem International 16. Acibadem Taksim 5. Acibadem Bakirkoy 11. Acibadem Kadikoy 6. Acibadem Bodrum 12. Acibadem Kayseri
INDIA
1. BGS Gleneagles Global Hospitals 4. Gleneagles Global Hospitals Parel 7. Continental Hospitals (Hyderabad) Kengeri (Bengaluru) (Mumbai) 2. Gleneagles Global Hospital, 5. Aware Gleneagles Global Hospitals Richmond Road (Bengaluru) LB Nagar (Hyderabad) 3. Gleneagles Global Health City 6. Gleneagles Global Hospitals Perumbakkam (Chennai) Lakdi-Ka-Pul (Hyderabad)
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Sustainability is becoming increasingly business operations. In order to achieve principles of Integrated Reporting. integral to long-term business success better integration, connectivity and The content index below serves as – on top of strong financial performance, completeness in our reporting, we have guide to help readers access different stakeholder groups now expect opted to include some sustainability sustainability information within organisations to adopt responsible content in other sections besides the this Annual Report. practices throughout the entire Sustainability Report, as part of the
CONTENTS OF THE PAGE SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT CAN BE FOUND IN NUMBER
Material sustainability matters Stakeholder Engagement 30 • How they are identified • Why they are important to IHH Material Matters 34
The scope of the Sustainability Statement and basis for the scope Sustainability Report 56
Material sustainability matters Our Patients 58 • Policies to manage these sustainability matters Our People 62 • Measures and actions taken to deal with these sustainability matters which demonstrate how IHH has performed in managing Our Organisation 67 these sustainability matters Our Environment 72
Our Community 76
The governance structure in place to manage economic, environmental Sustainability Governance Report 134 and social risks and opportunities
57 Sustainability OUR PATIENTS
We promote a patient-centred culture, prioritising quality of care and patient satisfaction in order to have an impact on the well-being of our patients and their families.
QUALITY OF CARE value for our patients are best achieved key performance indicators and Our efforts to improve the quality of through having a rigorous system measurements in five strategic care to our patients involve integrating of measurement, and by using this initiatives: People, Quality, Service, practices that are patient-centred, information to make continuous Finance and Growth. including the improvement of time improvements. For instance, in 2007, spent and communication with patients. the Parkway Pantai hospitals in Malaysia and Singapore embarked on the All of our hospitals strongly believe that Enterprise Balanced Scorecard project. clinical excellence and the creation of This Balanced Scorecard identifies
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INDIA: CASE STUDY
In order to achieve the aforementioned Value-added care towards improving the well-being of patients involves targets, Parkway Pantai India’s action implementing lean management where we are constantly improving the quality plan involves going lean and adopting of time spent in patient care. Nurse staffing ratios and patient maximums are a practices that reduce wasted time spent question of care quality, and we make sure that each patient is given enough by healthcare providers and improve the attention by assigning a number of administrators accordingly. In determining the quality of time spent in patient care. staffing ratio, we have also taken into consideration the fact that patient safety and Some of the key considerations that are care quality would be compromised if the nurses take on too many patients. The underway or in the planning stage are table below list the staffing ratio per patient at the different wards and units in the listed below: hospitals in India. STAFFING RATIOS PER PATIENT • Transforming the Nurse Call Bell System to a Patient Request-Specific Specific Unit Current Practice Call Bell System to reduce time General Ward 1:6 wasted on receiving calls for Special General Ward 1:5 non-nursing activities Sharing Ward 1:5 • Installing a special software Private Ward 1:4 application for instant complaints, and rectification of the same to Super Deluxe Ward 1:3 reduce the number of nurse call bells High Dependency Unit/ Step Down ICU 1:3 – a pilot study has been implemented Post-Operative Liver, Heart & Lung in Ward 1:1 in Continental Hospitals Bone Marrow Transplant Unit 1:1 • Designating a dedicated nurse for handling billing, pharmacy and Transplant ICU (Others) 1:1 patient care coordination activities Transplant ICU (Liver, Heart & Lung) — Ventilated 2:1 • Reducing the number of pharmacy ICU — Non-Ventilated 1:2 sub-stores managed by nurses • Reviewing the existing system of documentation and simplifying it with The average time spent, i.e. the current time and target time, in Parkway Pantai less writing requirements, but in hospitals in India for direct nursing care with patients on a six-hour shift in the wards keeping with Joint Commission and ICUs is as follows: International (JCI) requirements. WARDS ICUs Another measure that helps reduce wasted time in ad-hoc management, and Target Target provides a method by which healthcare providers can reliably deliver the best 200/360 250/360 possible care for patients undergoing minutes minutes particular treatments with inherent risks, is the use of infection control bundles in ICUs. The use of bundles is a set of evidence-based practices, generally Current Current three to five, that when performed collectively and reliably, have been 136/360 190/360 proven to improve patient outcomes. minutes minutes Another key aspect of quality care is patient and family engagement. At Parkway Pantai India, engagement has Wasted time, energy, and material are pervasive in healthcare. From a study conducted increased through our efforts to provide on Parkway Pantai India, it was observed that the majority of a nurse’s time during a patients with education or counselling on shift is spent on indirect nursing care, housekeeping activities, such as documentation medication safety, prevention of patient and billing related activities, patient care coordination with other treating teams, and falls, pain management, consents and pharmacy-related activities. discharge information.
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PATIENT AND FAMILY SAFETY to cater to the needs of our hospital staff, data, diagnosis, anthropometric The safety of our patients and their patients’ families and other visitors. measurements, weight history, pertinent families is of paramount importance as medications, diet order, nutritional Dietitians create food menus for patients needs, appropriateness of diet order, it has a direct impact on our business. and their companions according to Key aspects of patient and family safety assessment of nutritional status and the daily and weekly nutritional recommendations/nutrition goals. that are also pertinent in ensuring requirements by a value calculation of sustainable healthcare are food quality carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and In terms of food handling, our food and the rational use of medicine. Our minerals. All products are ensured to be products are prepared in a clean kitchen efforts to implement checks and of the highest quality and compatible in where all staff working in the cooking measures throughout our operations terms of food safety and nutritional and preparation lines are required to be are elaborated in this section. value as monitored by our nutrition and equipped with appropriate personal dietetics professionals. protective equipment (PPE), such as PATIENT MENU hairnets, disposable/cloth aprons, safe At IHH, we care about the quality and Nutrition screening is carried out for all closed-toe shoes, masks and gloves with nutritional benefits of our food products in-patients within 24 hours of admission, no hand jewellery or watches. Food is that are served to our patients. Our and a nutrition assessment is completed delivered to patients in our exclusive approach to food quality is to provide on patients who are identified to have a trolleys to maintain the hot or cold food that is sustainable, locally-focused, moderate or severe nutritional risk. A temperature of the meal, and a colour- clean, safe and specific to each of our clinical dietitian initiates a calorie count coded system is used to label the patients’ nutritional needs. Aside from where the results are documented in the different dietary requirements of patients hospital patients, the comprehensive progress notes as a diet prescription. The in order to avoid confusion. food menu prepared by our in-house and nutrition assessment and plan of care will external food and beverages team is able include a chart review of laboratory
SINGAPORE: CASE STUDY
When designing menus for patients, dedicated to providing for the dietary a control measure, we conduct Parkway Pantai hospitals in Singapore needs of our patients. They share their frequent visits to the vendor and put the trust in our reliable dietitian knowledge and work alongside the F&B prepare audits when necessary. guidelines for healthy product team to supply therapeutic diets1, such as selections and chemical-free food texture-modified diets2, to patients with In our product kitchen, we conduct products. We never fail to consider and special dietary needs. Also, to ensure daily hygiene checks, audits (three prioritise our patients’ health conditions the patients’ dietary requirements are times a week), monthly food product and their nutritional requirements. labelled and categorised, we have in testing by a third-party lab and place a food labelling system. quarterly quality Maintenance Our F&B management team works Department audits to ensure that the together with our dietitians to deliver Parkway Pantai conducts a series of food we provide to our patients are the best meals for our patients. All of prerequisites to source for the best food safe and of the highest quality to foster our food handling and production staff supplier. Firstly, we support local food health. are trained in food safety and hygiene suppliers that are Hazard Analysis Critical and are certified by the National Control Points (HACCP3) or ISO certified Environment Agency (NEA), a local and examine their supply chains before government agency. Our in-house awarding them the contract. Secondly, dietitians are very experienced and are as a means of quality assurance and as
1. A therapeutic diet is a meal plan that controls the intake of certain foods or nutrients. It is part of the treatment of a medical condition and is normally prescribed by a physician and planned by a dietitian. A therapeutic diet is usually a modification of a regular diet. 2. A texture-modified diet is a type of therapeutic diet designed to make chewing and swallowing safer and easier. 3. The HACCP scheme meets the requirements of the Codex Alimentarius Commission – established by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to bring together international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice to ensure fair trade.
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RATIONAL USE OF MEDICINES The inapt use of medicines results in not efficacy. The Group also regulates The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Malaysia only reduced safety and quality of improper patient adherence to dosing published the National Survey on the Use healthcare but also the increased schedules and treatment regimens of Medicines (NSUM) in 2016 and it stated wastage of health resources. The Group and inappropriate self-medication. that 60 per cent of medicines in public has a systematic approach to ensure the The checks and measures towards health facilities and 70 per cent of rational use of medicines, which includes these practices are in place throughout medicines in private facilities were proper dispensing practices, adherence our operations. prescribed and sold inappropriately in to protocol for prescribing medicine and developing countries. consideration for cost-effectiveness and
SINGAPORE: CASE STUDY
Multidisciplinary committees have been order entry (CPOE) reduces prescription pharmacist is continuously available to set up to coordinate policies and errors at the point of care, and provide medication information monitor the use of medicines in medications are prescribed using the services to doctors, nurses and Parkway Pantai hospitals in Singapore: hospital’s electronic health records (EHR). patients. The CPOE system uses a clinical decision • Medical Advisory Board support database that allows checking Anti-microbial resistance has been • Medical Quality Assurance for any drug-drug cross allergy and recognised as a global health threat Committee drug-drug interaction(s). and is now on the political agenda with organisations such as the World Health • Therapeutics and Infection Control A pharmacist will verify the prescribed Organization (WHO), which recognises Committee (TICC) medications for the appropriateness the necessity to act to preserve the • Pharmacy and Therapeutic of the drug, dosage regimen, route potency of antimicrobial agents and Committee of administration, drug interactions, invest funds to discover new ones. therapeutic duplication and potential The Antibiotic Stewardship Programme Our professional healthcare cross allergy. (ASP) in our hospitals seeks to enforce administrators ensure patients are judicious antimicrobial prescription to protected from adverse drug events For medication administration, the nurse improve individual patient care and and harm from medications. One utilises knowledge-based medication reduce microbial resistance. Treatment process that we have implemented administration (KBMA) where he/she guidelines for antimicrobial use are is medication reconciliation. Upon scans the patient tag and medication developed to optimise its use and admission, a pharmacist will perform barcode to ensure that the right minimise any resulting side-effects. medication reconciliation where medication is given to the right patient, Furthermore, the Pharmacy Division prescribed medications are reconciled at the right dose, right frequency and tracks the usage of antibiotics, such as with the patient’s own medications right time. Furthermore, a pharmacist Carbapenems2 and Vancomycin3, and taken prior to admission with the will provide counselling on the proper reports this to the TICC. purpose of looking out for duplication, use of medications to the patient, omission or an unintentional change in including specialised medications such the dosage or dosage regimen. as anticoagulants1 and medications requiring devices for delivery, such as The backbone of Parkway Pantai’s inhalers, injections and sprays. Yet approach to ensure the rational use of another measure to ensure proper drug medicines is the electronic order usage is that our pharmacies operate system. Computerised prescription 24 hours – whereby at least one
1. Anticoagulants are medications that thin the blood. 2. Carbapenems are antibiotics used for the treatment of infections known, or suspected, to be caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria. 3. Vancomycin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections. The World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines features the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system, and Vancomycin is on the list.
61 Sustainability OUR PEOPLE
To provide a safe working environment that is conducive for the personal and professional growth of our employees and corporate culture that is built on good communication practices, transparency and integrity.
We have a diverse group of people IHH’s Workforce Diversity Policy, Gender conducive workplace by facilitating working in IHH across the four countries. Diversity Policy and Boardroom Diversity effective communication and clear The following figures demonstrate Policy allow for an open workplace that channels for feedback. Moreover, our the distribution of our employees by nurtures diversity and inclusiveness. employees are continuously exposed to gender, age and employment level. We are able to create a positive and new cultures, ideas and knowledge.
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The graphs below describe the total employee strength and the distribution of full-time employees by gender across the main home markets – Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and India. S S ale emale